Lyrik and prose (fiction and non-fiction) by a writer & poet based in Germany's Black Forest town Freiburg. Satis Shroff is a multi-published author and poet, and syndicated writer in the USA for The American Chronicle and its twenty-one affiliated newspapers.
He's additionally a blogger on satisshroff.WritersDen.com and http:// satisshroff.blog.ch. Happy reading!

Welcome to Contemporary Writings by Satis Shroff (Freiburg)

Hi Everybody! Writing is something wonderful, whether you write poems or prose (short-stories, fiction, non-fiction) and it's great to express yourself and let the reader delve into your writings and share the emotions that you have experienced through the use of verbs, the muscles of a story, as my Creative Writing Prof Bruce Dobler at the University of Freiburg, Germany) used to say. I'd like to share my Contemporary Writings with YOU! Happy reading.

Akin to the creationOf the planet we live in.And here was I,Anzu Furukawa.Once a small ballet dancer,Now a full grown woman:A choreographer, performer,Ballet and modern dancer, studio pianist.‘The Pina Bausch of Tokyo’Wrote a German criticIn Der Tagesspiegel.

I was a professorOf performing arts in Germany.But Buto became my passion.Buto was born amid upheavals in Japan,When students took to the streets,With performance acts and agit props.Buto, this new violent dance of anarchy,Cut off from the traditions Of Japanese dance.

I lived my life with dignity,But the doctors said I was very, very sick.I had terminal tongue cancer.I’d been sleeping over thirty hours,And stopped breathing In peace,With my two lovely childrenHolding my hands.I’d danced at the Freiburg New Dance FestivalOnly twenty days ago.I saw the curtain falling,As we took our bows.

Blue is the colour of flexibility,Tender feelings and faithfulness.Perhaps that’s why I love you.

Blue is not alone light,It carries a bit of darknessWith it.The colour of your eyesHave an unspoken effect on me.I feel an ambivalence When you look at me.

Ultramarine blue is deep,The endlessness of the mind.Your cool blue eyes are distant,Like an open ocean.Stimulus and silence,Annäherung, Vermeidung.Sometimes, I understand you,At other times, I don’t.Am I day dreaming?

E=mc2Your body is a mass,When you decease,It becomes a mess.Putrification.

Your soul,Which never had a beginningAnd never has an endLives on as energy,Travels with the speed of light,To be one with the cosmos,Leaving behind families,Friends and relatives.People and emotional experiencesOf this small transitory world.

Was it an illusion,This worldly maya,With its ethereal charms?Did you liveOr were you already dead?

Unanswered questions of humanity,As the soul leaves your bodyAnd heads for the vast,Unfathomable cosmos,Like a blitz.To transform into energy.

What came first?The light?The energy?Or the mass?

*****LIKE PROMETHEUS AND ICARUS (Satis Shroff)

Up and up we flew exultantlyTowards the Himalayas.Kathmandu, Bhadgaon and LalitpurWith their palaces, pagodas, shrines,Brick houses and hotels ,Lush green fields in the outskirtsOf the valley,Were becoming smaller and greener.

For a moment in my mindI was the dragon that rides over the clouds.I was Prometheus,The saviour of mankind,Who gave mortals fire.I was Icarus,Flying away from Crete.

As I peered at the majestic silvery Himalayas,I felt my insignificance in the vastnessThat unfurled below me.How many climbers from the West and East,How many Sherpas and other ethnic portersStill lie in the crevasses Of Himalayan glaciers?

The earth is below us,And receives us.I have a feeling of smallness,Humility,As I alight from the jet.

I’ve seen and feltThe spell of the mighty Himalayas,And what’s beyond the cloudsIn the sky.A strong, deep, religious experience,For I had trespassed The Abode of Snows,Himalaya. The Home of the Gods.

*****MUSIC AND MUSE (Satis Shroff)

Pillows of silk, sheets of white satinA world of lights and colours,Of precious spices, exotic fruitsAnd music.A world of joy and merrymakingBehind the Rana palace curtainsIn Kathmandu.

I’ve learned the mystery of loveAnd buried my face in her lap.Penned poems in the white heatOf passionate moments,Till she cried in ecstasy: ‘How wonderful.’

Glossary:Ranas: The Ranas were former rulers of Nepal who usurped the throne of the Shahs. Nepal is a republic since 2008 headed by a Maoist Führer named Prachanda

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WITHOUT WORDS (Satis Shroff)

We speak with each otherA wonderful feeling overcomes meAnd I’m touched to the roots of my existence.As though it’s a doubling of my existence.It becomes a passionTo speak with each other.

Our lives are filled with togetherness:With ourselves and our children.I discover myself in youAnd you in me.Where one is at homeIn the company of the otherAnd vice versa.

Where you can be the way you are,Where I can be the way I am.Our tolerance for each other is crucial.There are moments when one forgets time.We speak to each other without words.It’s not sung,It’s not instrumental chords.

Just our hearts understanding each other.In tact with each other.Our eyes speak volumesAnd a nod is enough.

Satis Shroff is a lecturer, poet and writer and the published author of three books on www.Lulu.com: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelogue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese authors, edited by Satis Shroff). His lyrical works have been published in literary poetry sites: Slow Trains, International Zeitschrift, World Poetry Society (WPS), New Writing North, Muses Review, The Megaphone, Pen Himalaya, Interpoetry. He is a member of “Writers of Peace”, poets, essayists, novelists (PEN), World Poetry Society (WPS) and The Asian Writer.

Satis Shroff is based in Freiburg (poems, fiction, non-fiction) and also writes on ecological, ethno-medical, culture-ethnological themes and lectures at the University of Freiburg. He has studied Zoology and Botany in Nepal, Medicine and Social Sciences in Germany and Creative Writing in Freiburg and the United Kingdom. He describes himself as a mediator between western and eastern cultures and sees his future as a writer and poet. Since literature is one of the most important means of cross-cultural learning, he is dedicated to promoting and creating awareness for Creative Writing and transcultural togetherness in his writings, and in preserving an attitude of Miteinander in this world. He lectures in Basle (Switzerland) and in Germany at the Akademie für medizinische Berufe (University Klinikum Freiburg) and the Zentrum für Schlüsselqualifikationen (University of Freiburg where he is a Lehrbeauftragter for Creative Writing). Satis Shroff was awarded the German Academic Exchange Prize.http://www.zfs.uni-freiburg.de/zfs/dozent/lehrbeauftragte4/index_html/#shroff

Über mich / About me

Satis Shroff teaches Creative Writing at the University of Freiburg http://www.zfs.uni-freiburg.de/zfs/dozent/lehrbeauftragte4/index_html/#shroffand is the published author of three books on www.Lulu.com: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelgue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese authors, edited by Satis Shroff). His lyrical works have been published in literary poetry sites: Slow Trains, International Zeitschrift, World Poetry Society (WPS), New Writing North, Muses Review, The Megaphone, Pen Himalaya, Interpoetry. Satis Shroff is a member of “Writers of Peace”, poets, essayists, novelists (PEN), World Poetry Society (WPS) and The Asian Writer.